Mirroring a digital twin universe through the data fusion of static and dynamic location, time and event data

ABSTRACT

A system and method for creating mobile device or vehicle profiles (mobile object) using location, time, event, and unrelated data. The method includes generating profiles through the collection and aggregation of raw mobile object data, its enrichment through data fusion via FPGA, GPU, TPU, and similar chips, matching them with unique geometric shapes, groups of unique and similar geometric shapes, with unrelated layers of time and location-based data sources, scanning the enriched data through cloud clustered parallel processing workflows, generating profile and group based statistics, behavior and metadata, deploying spatial algorithms, storing the enriched data in a datastore accessible through internal and external platforms, running deep learning, evolutionary algorithms and artificial life models to create look-alikes and patterns, sharing them across external platforms for historical analysis, real time analysis or predictive forecasts, building, mirroring and regenerating a digital twin universe of the physical dimension, simulating and iterating parallel digital universes.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of Invention

The present invention relates generally to the field of data. Morespecifically, the embodiments herein relate to uniquely enriching mobileobjects, location, time, and physical data through an accelerated anddistributed system and accessing it through external platforms.

Discussion of Related Art

With the exponential increase of devices, data sources, frequencies, andvolumes, previously scattered and fragmented, containing human,sociological, psychographic, geographic, mobility, and economic vectorsof data the gradual enablement of data converging into a realm of acyber-physical reality is taking place. Unseemly related forms ofpreviously inaccessible data and insights can be generated through thefusion of these data sources. Mobile devices through MSISDNs (MobileSubscriber ISDN) or their MAIDs (Mobile Advertiser Identifiers) emitlocation data, which are randomly generated alphanumeric stringsassigned by the mobile phone's Operating System, under the mobile appusers' control. Aircraft and Aerial Vehicles broadcast their ADS-B(Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) signals when in flight andgrounded to comply with flight regulations. Satellites through their SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) detect minerals and vegetation for commercialpurposes. Crowdsourced events such as social media and marketplace postsare tagged with locations to provide. Space observatories and HAM radiospick up geomagnetic activities to measure radiation emitted onto theEarth. Central banks publish interest rates and monetary policies acrossvarious media. All these data sources have locations in common, eitherby name, geospatial indexes, or raw coordinates and time. The fusion ofthese separate and unrelated forms of data and their streams createsnewly and previously inaccessible insights and metadata providing thebuilding blocks of a mirrored and recreated digital twin of the planet.

Embodiments of the present invention are an improvement over prior artsystems and methods.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

An embodiment herein provides a method for mirroring a digital twinuniverse through the aggregation of mobile objects and static physicaland dynamic data.

The method includes (a) generating a profile of the mobile object orgroups of mobile objects based on location visits, aggregation ofmultiple location visits, journeys and frequencies of the visits bycoordinates, location names and time, either through predefined or userdefined geometric shapes; (b) aggregating and segmenting deviceapplications, mobile object transmissions by language, hardware/softwaredetails, device application and transmissions per mobile object; (c)cross analyzing mobile objects across a group or groups of mobileobjects stored in a data store to generate mobile object segments; (d)enriching the historical and current state of the mobile object withunrelated data sources through a datastore (e) enriching the data storethrough geometric shapes and assigning location, time and objectfeatures through spatial algorithms (f) providing a mirrored reality ofmobile objects and their interactions with other objects, physical anddigital planes; (e) generating a digital twin universe to mirror acyber-physical reality to be displayed on a user interface (f) querying,controlling and transmitting the historical and real time data acrossplatforms; (g) mirroring and simulating iterations of the digital twinuniverse through algorithms.

In all embodiments, the mobile object location is pre-computed throughlocation, event, and timestamp emissions by the system.

In all embodiments, the data fusion takes place across all raw datasources.

In all embodiments, the mobile object's journeys are aggregated acrossall locations, events, and timeframes by the system.

In some embodiments, the mobile object's reaction to datastore variablesis displayed across user interfaces and maps.

In some embodiments, the enriched data is queried on a datastore throughopen source, licensed, publicly available, or commercially built tools,APIs, user interfaces, and query interfaces.

In some embodiments, the enriched datastore is queried with pre-builtrules to generate charts, location-based, event-based or time-based,time series graphs, and network graphs.

In another aspect which when a query is executed across the data storeoutput of mobile object is displayed in user-defined timeframes (a)generating an aggregation of date time intervals of second, minute, day,month, year; (b) generating an aggregation of previous location visits;(c) generating an aggregation of mobile transmissions of the mobileobject; (d) generating an aggregation of location combinations eitheruser-defined or pre-defined; (e) building profiles or segments of themobile objects through categories of mobile transmissions, interactionsacross locations, interactions across events, interactions across timeand interactions across other mobile objects; (f) selecting theseprofiles and segments across locations and regions together or uniquelyacross a predefined or user-defined location; (h) comparativelydisplaying multiple locations or groups of locations across categories;(i) assigning scores across purely by location (latitude, longitude) oracross locations with time variables (latitude, longitude, timestamp);(j) inferring socioeconomic and psychographic profiles and segmentsacross pre-defined or user-defined locations; (k) generating mobileobject lifecycles and life logs (l) utilizing the aggregations formachine learning, statistical learning, deep learning, evolutionaryalgorithms, artificial lifeform algorithms, and cellular automata.

In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method comprising:(a) generating a profile of a mobile object based on location visits,aggregation of multiple location visits, journeys and frequencies of thevisits by coordinates, location names and times, either throughpredefined or user-defined geometric shapes; (b) aggregating andsegmenting device applications, mobile object transmissions by language,hardware/software details, device application, and transmissions by themobile object; (c) cross analyzing the mobile object across one or moregroups of mobile objects stored in a data store and generating mobileobject segments; (d) enriching the historical and current state of themobile object with unrelated data sources through the datastore; (e)enriching the data store through geometric shapes and assigninglocation, time and object features through spatial algorithms; (f)providing a mirrored reality of mobile objects and their interactionswith other objects, physical and digital planes; (g) generating adigital twin universe to mirror a cyber-physical reality to be displayedon a user interface; (h) querying, controlling, and transmittinghistorical and real-time data across platforms; and (i) mirroring andsimulating iterations of the digital twin universe through one or morepre-defined algorithms.

In another embodiment, the present invention provides a methodcomprising: (a) generating an aggregation of the following: (1)date-time intervals of a second, minute, day, month, and year, (2)previous location visits, (3) mobile transmissions of one or more mobileobjects, and (4) either user-defined or pre-defined locationcombinations; (b) building profiles or segments of the one or moremobile objects through categories of mobile transmissions, interactionsacross locations, interactions across events, interactions across time,and interactions across other mobile objects; (c) selecting builtprofiles and segments across locations and regions together or uniquelyacross a predefined or user-defined location; (d) comparativelydisplaying multiple locations or groups of locations across a pluralityof categories; (e) assigning scores purely by location (latitude,longitude) or across locations with time variables (latitude, longitude,timestamp); (f) inferring socioeconomic and psychographic profiles andsegments across the pre-defined or user-defined location; and (j)generating mobile object lifecycles and life logs utilizing theaggregations for machine learning, statistical learning, deep learning,evolutionary algorithms, artificial lifeform algorithms, and cellularautomata.

In yet another embodiment, the present invention provides a method forenriching a profile through matching them across static and dynamiclocation data, latitudes and longitudes and timestamps, the methodcomprising: (a) generating a parent location of the profile byidentifying the associated parent location across all parent locationswhere the profile falls within; (b) generating the child location of theprofile by identifying the associated child location across all childlocations under the hierarchy of the parent location where the profilefalls within; (c) generating the grandchild location of the profile byidentifying the associated grandchild location across all grandchildlocations under the hierarchy of the child locations where the profilefalls within; (d) updating profile or segment: (1) across the parentlocations, child locations, and grandchild locations at same level ofhierarchies, or across hierarchies; (2) across time ranges by parentlocation, child location and grandchild location at a specified timerange or across time intervals; (f) building scores by selecting,creating, and generating features in supervised or unsupervised mannerby retrieving hierarchies of locations, or combining all parent, child,grandchild locations; (g) enriching profiles, segments, and hierarchiesfusing the profiles and segments across other sources of profiles ortheir hierarchies through pre-defined or machine-defined rules; (h)generating profile lifecycles through aggregation of profiles by parent,child and grandchild locations varied through time ranges and intervals;(i) generating location lifecycles through aggregation of locations byparent, child and grandchild locations varied through time ranges andintervals; (j) generating event lifecycles through aggregation of eventsby parent, child and grandchild locations varied through time ranges andintervals; (k) combining profile, location, and event lifecycles throughhierarchies or across hierarchies of profiles as segments, locations,and time; (l) inferring profile lifecycles reaction across locations,locations lifecycle across events, and event lifecycles across profiles;and (m) generating profiles across unique identifiers, groups ofidentifiers or segments associating mutual locations, relationships,mutual events, or locations.

These and other aspects of the embodiments herein will be bettercomprehensible by the way of drawings and explanations and are not ofany limitation. Modifications may be made within the embodiments withoutdiverging from general concepts of data fusion across moving objects,location, and event-based data.

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The present disclosure, in accordance with one or more various examples,is described in detail with reference to the following figures. Thedrawings are provided for purposes of illustration only and merelydepict examples of the disclosure. These drawings are provided tofacilitate the reader's understanding of the disclosure and should notbe considered limiting of the breadth, scope, or applicability of thedisclosure. It should be noted that for clarity and ease of illustrationthese drawings are not necessarily made to scale.

FIG. 1 illustrates the schematics of multi-sourced data aggregation overthe internet either through publicly available or partnered data sourcesand displayed after the data fusion process through a user interfaceaccording to some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 2 illustrates the schematics of the data fusion module in FIG. 1creating a digital twin profile module, a digital twin location module,and a digital twin event module according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 illustrates the schematic of how the data fusion module in FIG. 2creates a generated profile twin, generated location twin and agenerated event twin module is created according to the presentinvention.

FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic of how the data fusion module in 3interacts with the data store replicator module and the algorithmcoordinator module according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 depicts a diagram of how the data store in 4 interacts with theuser interface to transfer and broadcast data to external platformsaccording to the present invention.

FIGS. 6A-6B depict flow diagrams for associating profiles withhierarchies of location according to the present invention.

FIGS. 7A-S depict various screenshots of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

While this invention is illustrated and described in a preferredembodiment, the invention may be produced in many differentconfigurations. There is depicted in the drawings, and will herein bedescribed in detail, a preferred embodiment of the invention, with theunderstanding that the present disclosure is to be considered as anexemplification of the principles of the invention and the associatedfunctional specifications for its construction and is not intended tolimit the invention to the embodiment illustrated. Those skilled in theart will envision many other possible variations within the scope of thepresent invention.

Note that in this description, references to “one embodiment” or “anembodiment” mean that the feature being referred to is included in atleast one embodiment of the invention. Further, separate references to“one embodiment” in this description do not necessarily refer to thesame embodiment; however, neither are such embodiments mutuallyexclusive, unless so stated and except as will be readily apparent tothose of ordinary skill in the art. Thus, the present invention caninclude any variety of combinations and/or integrations of theembodiments described herein.

FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a system 1000 for collectingmultiple sources of mobile object data 101A-C, 102A-C, 103A-C, sourcesof static location data 104, and sources of dynamic location data 105.101-A is a profile associated with a mobile device, 101-B is profileassociated with another mobile device, and so on, where 101-N mayrepresent the remainder of the mobile devices. In FIG. 1 , theuniqueness of mobile devices is represented under their collectivecategory of 201. 101-A may be an iPhone® XR with a different ID, 101-Bmay be a Xiao Mi®, and 101-C may be a Samsung® Galaxy device, whichbelong to different unique profiles, but are categorized under MobileDevice 201. A similar analysis applies to the collective categoriesrepresented by “Aircraft” 202, “Ship” 203, “Other Mobile Objects” 204,“Static Location Data” 205, and “Dynamic Location Data” 206. In thiscontext, Mobile Object Data refers to a mobile object emitting locationdata over the Internet, where such Mobile Object Data includes locationcoordinates and time stamps. “Static Location Data” refers to locationsthat do not move (they may be city borders or buildings themselves),where such “Static Location Data” may be represented as points, lines orpolygons on a map (geometric shapes). “Dynamic Location Data” refers tolocations that do move (they may include river paths, glacier movements,land-filled human-made creations, real-time forest fire locations),where such “Dynamic Location Data” may be represented as a point, line,or polygons on a map (mainly relating to natural land formations

102-A may be a cargo plane, such as Airbus® Beluga (unique tail numberfor example. A7-BGA), 102-B may be a passenger plane, such as Airbus®A320 (unique tail number), and 102-C may be a private jet such asGulfstream® G700 (unique tail number), which are collectivelycategorized as 202 Aircraft.

103-A may be a deep oil drill ship (for example, MAERSK® VALIANT), 103-Bmay be a cruise liner and 103-C may be an oil tanker (for example, YM®VENUS).

105A-C may be data relating to shopping mall coordinates for 201 mobiledevices, airport coordinates for 202 aircraft, or seaport coordinatesfor ships 203.

Dynamic location data 206 relates to location data that changes, i.e.,appears or disappears over time (predictable events (public holidaytimestamps, concerts, football matches) and unpredictable events(earthquake), data related to forest fires in X location that movetoward Y location, etc. The importance of matching all this is to createprofiles such as private jet owners (unseemly related profiles), etc.within the data store 601.

Data from various data sources (201 (from a mobile device), 202 (from anaircraft-based data source), 203 (from a ship-based data source), 204(from other mobile objects), 205 (from a static location data source),206 (from a dynamic location data source)) containing, for example,location and time data, is aggregated and segmented across theircategories, where the aggregated data is collected via the Internet 301and stored in a cloud storage architecture 401 (such as object storageservices, data lakes, lake houses, data warehouses) where such storeddata is accessible via a data fusion module 501. As used herein, theterm “aggregated” means, collected under a category (such as 101-A to Ccollected as mobile device), while “segmented” across their categoriesmeans, if 101-A is an android device it is segmented (at the data store601) together with other android devices.

Aggregated data is matched through various spatial, geospatial, andspatiotemporal algorithms and is sent into a data store 601 (e.g.,columnar or non-columnar RDBMS database system, non-database in memoryor out-of-memory data stores, etc.). User interface 701 provides accessto data in data store 601 over the Internet (or, alternatively, via alocal area network (LAN)). For example, a query may be submitted viainterface 701, the results of which may be displayed to an end-user.Matching in different scenarios may require different approaches, e.g.,spatial algorithms may match a mobile device to a building (e.g.,shopper/customer), geospatial algorithms may match mobile device to aland type such as a glacier (e.g., geologist) and spatiotemporalalgorithms may match a mobile device at a location at a specificday-time (e.g., football watcher).

The term mobile object data refers to any device transmittingcoordinates and timestamps

Mobile device data 201 represents Mobile Subscriber ISDN (MSISDN) dataretrieved through cell towers of telecom operators or Mobile AdvertiserID (MAID) data collected through mobile applications, where non-limitingexamples of such mobile devices include cell phone devices,machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, IoT devices or SIM-controlleddrone/equipment. Data collected from such devices include, but are notlimited to, latitude, longitudes, cell tower IDs and timestamps, SIMcard details, mobile application usage, and mobile application lists.Elements 101A-C represent individual profiles that share the locationdata that was collected through (but not limited to) call data records(CDRs) and mobile application software development kits (SDKs). Element202 represents aircraft/unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) signalstransmitted via Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcasts (ADS-B)collected by radio hobbyist networks or commercial satellites. Elements102A-C represent aircraft profiles identified through unique identifiers(e.g., tail/flight numbers). Non-limiting examples of location datatransmitted include, but are not limited to, latitude, longitude, andtimestamps.

Element 203 represents Automatic Identification System (AIS) signalstransmitted by, for example, ships, container ships, drill rigs, tugboats, fishing boats, and exploration craft, where such signals compriseany of the following: latitude, longitude, and timestamps, and wheresuch data is associated with a uniquely identifiable profile 103A-C.

Other mobile objects 204 include moving objects that include a controlmechanism through SIM cards, such as moving Internet of Things (IoT)type devices.

Element 205 represents static location data such as point coordinates ofa location, name, feature, latitude, longitude, or one or more groups ofpoints, each representing a point of interest or areas of interest andhaving coordinates that form a polygon, multi-polygon, or line which.‘Feature’ here represents geographic or urban features such as buildingdetails, elevation, etc. The ‘Name’ represents the name of the point(e.g., as traffic stop name, name of the polygon such as city name, nameof the line such as street name, etc.). ‘Urban’ here refers tohuman-made constructs while ‘geographic’ names are naturally occurringfeatures. Uniquely identifiable static locations are represented asunique profiles 104.

Dynamic location data 206, random but updated in nature, representsupdated geometric shapes (mentioned previously) that are updated in datasources that infer events such as geometries derived from satelliteimagery, mass human activity, social media posts that include latitude,longitude, timestamps (or generalized as locations of cities, districts,and other administrative levels) etc. Geometric shapes include shapessuch as points, lines, and polygons. For example, an ATM may be a point(has one coordinate), a road may be a line (has 2 coordinates) and apolygon may be a building (has more than 3 coordinates). These shapesmay be updated; for example, the ATM may be converted from an HSBC® bankATM to a Natwest® bank ATM, same for polygons where a Walmart® mayconvert to an Amazon® warehouse. Both the name of the shape (Walmart® toAmazon®) and the structure of the shape may change over time (airportadds new terminal), or newly created buildings may be added to thestatic location data 205 as a new profile 104-A. Every country has itsadministrative levels or structure. A county in one nation may be astate in another. Some countries don't have neighborhoods but addressthem as Postal Codes. The phrase used above—‘Random but updated innature’—means that this data is always emitted from devices. Thesedevices don't typically have a consistent pattern of emitting location(always different coordinates but data is always collected). Such datacollected in the cloud storage system 401 may be shared across theInternet 301 where such sharing is commercially motivated or is done inan open-source or crowd-sourced manner.

Data fusion module 501 combines latitude, longitude, and timestamp dataat various dimensions. All profiles are matched across a unique latitudeand longitude. The dimensions are a visual representation (for ourperception) of layers of data combined through latitude and longitude,independent of time. A coordinate (latitude, longitude) may imply aship, a mobile device, and a port at the same time are matched togetherbecause they appeared at the same location. For example, data fusionmodule 501 combines the previously described AIS data (associated with“Ships” element 203 in FIG. 1 and its associated profiles stored inprofiles 103A-C) with the previously described MAID data (associatedwith “Mobile Device” element 201 in FIG. 1 and its associated profilesstored in profiles 101A-C) to create a new profile for a sailor in aship or oil tanker, for example, through geometric and spatialalgorithms. The algorithm to match the mobile device with the ship willbe a point-in-polygon algorithm (the point is the mobile device, and thepolygon will be the ship itself in 2D. The point-in-polygon is aspatial/geometric algorithm. Rule-based algorithms such as if a mobiledevice falls within a ship (2 layers combined), handled by the datafusion module 501, may imply the profile is a sailor or passenger, inreverse, a ship with passengers, to be stored in the data store 601.Such algorithms enable the combination of profile data in 101A-C(representing profile data associated with a mobile device associatedwith a given sailor) and 103A-C (representing profile data associatedwith a ship or oil tanker associated with the same sailor), whereby thedata fusion module 501 conducts additional statistical analysis andinference across their interactions to create new insights and new datareferred to herein as “enriched data.” For the ship and sailor exampleabove, a sailor that visits other ships which are only oil drill ships,this sailor would further be tagged as an oil worker. The data store 601provides a library where such enriched data may be accessed via userinterfaces 701. Such interfaces could be implemented via StructuredQuery Language (SQL) editors, JavaScript (JS), HTTP POST, API, querybuilders, mapping tools, business intelligence (BI) tools, and externalplatforms (either open-source, in-house built, licensed on-premise, oron a cloud).

FIG. 2 depicts a block diagram displaying the functionality associatedwith the data fusion module 501 that is used to create a mirroreduniverse module 501-A. The data fusion module receives, as input, datafrom elements 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, and 206 of FIG. 1 , where suchdata may include dynamic location data, dynamic time data, dynamicgeometric shapes, static geometric shapes, unique identifiers,application data, transmission data, connection data, historicallocation data, etc. Digital twin modules are used to represent anaggregation of time across “profiles”, “times” and “events”. Forexample, a generated profile twin module 502 is used to represent timeacross profiles, a generated location twin module 503 is used torepresent location across profiles, and a generated event twin module504 is used to represent time across events. Generated profile twinmodules are created by the system at t=0 (runtime) and constantlymaintained and fed, other digital twins may be created and fed data inparallel, therefore generated on demand. “Represent” here meansdisplaying them on the user interface 701 as charts, statistics, maps,etc., as designed by the instruction builder 1001. “Representing”locations across profiles is can be seen at FIG. 7Q, or representinglocations and time across profiles at FIG. 7L, FIG. 7O and FIG. 7P.Representing locations across profiles, without time can be seen at FIG.7N (no time range as it is a pie chart) and FIG. 7M (no time range as itis a network graph). Other examples for representing time acrossprofiles, can be equivalent to showing travel paths of summertimevacationers (British tourists visit Spanish beaches, while Dutchtourists visit Turkish beaches), representing location across profilescan be equivalent to displaying demographics of customers across aWalmart® (students in the weekend, white-collar within the weekday).Representing events across profiles is equivalent to the number offootball matches, concert visits, and factory visits across profiles.

The data fusion module 501 can export an output such as a map showingthe footprints of a mobile device across a city or countries (itsoverall movement across streets and buildings) while showing its carownership status in different colors or as Yes or No across the map(think as a 3D profile, both moving and changing its ownership, income,etc. across time). Another case may be that the overall features taggedwith the profile (car owner, vegan, summer vacationer, etc.) can bedisplayed as statistics. These cases are for the 502 module. The datafusion module 501 can export output such as a cumulative map of all theprofiles as seen at motorways in FIG. 7I or for a whole area of interestor a city at FIG. 7J, this can be filtered historically or displayed inreal-time. For generated location twin module 503, an example may be areal-time location replica generated at Times Square, tourists appear,tagged as Chinese, vegan, and high income, and their profiles areaccumulated within the location twin module and stored. The output ofthe data fusion module 501 across 504 may be represented as a timeseries in FIG. 7L as road constructions and traffic jams affecting roadvisits, grouped by road names.

Each of the digital twin modules (i.e., 502, 503, and 504) provides itsoutput to a feed lifecycle creator module (i.e., 502A, 503A, and 504A,respectively). For example, in the case of profile twin module 502, theprofile lifecycle generator module 502A creates a trajectory of profilevisits, visit sequences, visit intervals, profile visit preferences,mobility patterns, location affinities, and retentions of a profileacross locations. With respect to mobile devices 201 in FIG. 1 , profiletwin module 502 allows for the creation of loyalty indices of phoneowners to a location or location category such as a brand. With respectto aircraft element 202 in FIG. 1 , profile twin module 502 allows forthe creation of aircraft profiles based on the number of visits to anairport. With respect to ship element 203 in FIG. 1 , profile twinmodule 502 enables profiling ships in frequencies to a port to determinetrade routes.

Location lifecycle creator module 503-A enables detecting loyalty scoresaggregated at the location digital twin module 503. If a profile visitsa location more than once or in specific intervals then loyalty of theprofile can be generated or scored. A mobile device 101-A visits aWalmart® (104-A) in FIG. 1 , 4 times a month until June 2022, withoutvisiting any other supermarket; then in July 2022, the mobile devicestarts visiting Costco®, without visiting. Walmart® again, then theretention or loyalty to Walmart® 104-A decreases with the mobile device101-A, and when aggregated with all mobile devices 201 at FIG. 1 , thetotal loyalty to Walmart® decreases (aggregated here is the summing ofall the Walmart® visitors across its competitors). Being able to analyzethis, is enabled, through the location digital twin module 503-Aaccessing the mirrored universe module 501-A, either prebuilt at thedata fusion module 501, or human-defined through the instruction builder1001 (writing a churn or loyalty SQL script) on the user interface 701at FIG. 5 . In the case of the generated location twin module 503, adigital mirror of a location is created through the 503-A locationlifecycle creator module which creates a location lifecycle for a givenlocation based on historical data or real-time data, where historical orreal-time data associated with the location lifecycle may be any of, butnot limited to, the following: temperature, humidity, air pollution,sound pollution, social media posts across the location (that mayinclude happiness, stress, income level data that may implypsychographic and socioeconomic data and the change. The demographicbreakdown (income level, age, car ownership) changes over time permobile device. The changes in profile visits can be seen; for example,during discount days/clearance sales take place in an average-incomeshopping mall, then low-income profile visitors may be attracted to alocation and that this can be viewed at the user interface 701 at FIG. 5through the generated location twin module at 503, wherein such data ismatched with the profiles of mobile devices 201 of FIG. 1 . Determiningsuch correlation via the location twin module 503 and location lifecyclecreator module 503-A allows the identification of whether a specificmobile device owner may choose a location just due to low decibel soundpollution.

Geographic event attributes, urban event attributes, economic eventattributes, machine-defined anomalous event attributes, human-definedanomalous event attributes, and event timeframes are input to the eventlifecycle creator module 504-A. These inputs are ingested into the eventtwin module. They are external sources of information that are added to504 so that correlations can be observed (through the user interface 701at FIG. 4 ), for example, an increase in interest rates may cause a dropin low income visitors to a shopping mall. Geographic event attributesinclude, but are not limited to, earthquake, flood, hurricanecoordinates, timestamps, groups of coordinates (such as polygons ormultipolygons), etc. Urban event attributes include, but are not limitedto, accidents, sound pollution, and other human-created events that arenot statically anchored on a location but are, rather, dynamic innature. The categorization of lifecycles via profile twin module 502,location twin module 503, and event twin module 504, along with thecombination of corresponding profile lifecycle creator module 502-A,location lifecycle creator module 503-A, and event lifecycle creatormodule 504-A allows for the consolidation of such outputs into amirrored universe module 501-A, where profiles, locations, and/or eventsare tracked and assigned a lifecycle, along with mirroring of lifecycles of systems (such as elements 201, 202, 203, 204, 205 and 206 ofFIG. 1 ) across the globe. “Mirror” in this application refers to thereal-time and historical recreation of locations, times, and events thatcan be rewound, reiterated, backtested, or simulated with changingvariables across the lifecycles. Examples of stimulating include playingwith interest rates (other sources of data as variables and experimentto outcomes), to simulate the reaction of visitor counts to a shoppingmall (will they increase or decrease). Examples of changing variablesinclude playing with temperature and humidity to see the reaction ofvisitors to a beach. Examples of backtesting include setting an endgoal, e.g., maximum visits to Florida beach, and find the combinationsrequired, such as 35 degrees Celsius, 0 knot wind speed, 0.1% fed fundsrate, 2% credit card rate, etc. (essentially simulating an end goal, andfinding the combinations required to reach it).

As an example, mobile device profiles 101-A, 101-B, 101-C associatedwith mobile device element 201 in FIG. 1 are enriched through the datafusion module 501 (of FIG. 2 ) that enables analysis of scenarios suchas visitors of an ice-cream shop (via profile life cycle creator module502-A) who have visited beaches (via location life cycle creator module503-A) during the winter season (via event life cycle creator module504-A). To rewind and view the scenario in the summertime, the mirroreduniverse module 501-A allows viewing the interactions backward in timeor lifecycles of the location.

FIG. 3 is an illustrative diagram of how the profile twin module 502,the location twin module 503, and the event twin module 504 are scaledfor increased processing power and accelerated geometric calculations.The data fusion module 501 can be represented as a server (or itsreplicable machine image) that downloads and reads the data stored onthe cloud storage 401. This server includes one, or a combination ofGPUs, CPUs, TPUs, etc. and utilizes them to run spatial, geospatial andspatiotemporal algorithms for data fusion purposes. These algorithms tobe run, are enabled through a combination of various software librariescombined together within the same server. In FIG. 3 , the data fusionsystem replicator module 505, replicates 501 in order to increasecapacity. 501 is a combination of resources required for the fusion,however, 505 is a module that recreates and copies resources so thatmuch larger volumes of data can be handled. The replication coordinatormodule 506 controls and sends tasks in parallel chunks acrossdistributed systems, servers, and processors, while coordinating with ageometric match scanner module 507 (which may comprise multidimensionaltree search algorithms and geospatial algorithms) and a geometric shapecalculator module 508 (which may comprise memory allocation,multithreading, and optimization software and scripts, to efficientlydistribute tasks and avoid replications and collisions). The replicationcoordinator module 506 allows for upscaling and downscaling operationsof the machines used for the geometric calculations. Profile twin module502, location twin module 503, and event twin module 504 are thereforefed with the output of the data fusion module 501.

FIG. 4 illustrates an interaction diagram between the data store 601,the data fusion module 501, the user interface 701, algorithmcoordinator module 801, and the data store replicator module 901. Thedata store 601 messages its existence and current state to the datastore replicator module 901, and communicates its need to scale up ordown as adjusted by the size of the datastore and the size of the dataingestion The size of the datastore is directly related to the dataingestion size. The size of the data ingestion is random. For exampleone day, 1 Terabyte of data is emitted from profiles, while the next day10 Terabytes. Predefined data size counters or metrics, detect theresource requirements, for example if 10 replicated data stores exceed adata storage limit of 90%, another one is added to make it 11. The datastore 601 increases the number of data store replicas through the datastore replicator module 901 while in parallel increasing the amount ofgenerated profile twin module 502, generated location twin module 503,and generated event twin module 504. The data store module 601 iscapable of triggering the data fusion module 501, the data replicatormodule 901, the user interface, or the algorithm coordinator module 801.

The messaging system between the user interface 701 and the data store601 can be described with the following tasks. The user via the userinterface 701 can query the datastore 601 (through, for example, an HTTPPOST query, a native query in JAVA™, a database languages query such asa SQL query, etc.). In response to such a query, the data store 601sends back results and displays them as one or more dashboards, one ormore charts, one or more tables, and statistics Dashboards are designedthrough a user interface 701. Charts and tables can be built in, with nodata at all (i.e., they are empty to begin with), once the data startsbeing ingested as historical and real-time, these charts and tablesstart changing dynamically. More than one dashboard can be created onthe user interface, one that only analyzes mobile devices at airports,another that displays maps of mobile devices on railway networks. If nodata is returned or an error takes place, an error message is sent tothe user interface 701. The user interface 701 can store pre-calculatedqueries to be run in real-time. These are time-independent SQL queriessaved on the user interface. Metrics may be pre-calculated, for examplea visitor/hour metric can be designed and once real time data isingested, the user interface will always display the visitor/hour outputin real time, or historical if required. The data store 601 can alsocommunicate the size and segments (i.e., data store time segment) storedwithin its store back to the user interface. Segment here refers to datastore time segment that may be segmented by time intervals, minutely,hourly, or daily. The data size can be viewed at the user interface 701and whether this data can only be accessed in minutes, hours, etc.(depending on the level of granularity).

When a query (or queries) at the user interface requires heavy resourcerequirements (e.g., when the user interface is used for heavy amounts ofqueries or when the output of the user interface is estimated to belarge). A machine is replicated into multiple machines in order tohandle high resource requirements. This can be predicted by a set timelimit, for example, if a query does not respond within 15 seconds, extramachines or replicas are fired-off, where the query is furtherdistributed, the data store 601 communicates such resource requirementsto the data store replicator 901 which identifies if any readilyavailable instances of replicated generated profile twin module 502,generated location twin module 503 or generated event twin module 504 iscurrently online. When no such instances are currently online, thenecessary number of replicas of generated profile twin module 502,generated location twin module 503, and generated event twin module 504are generated to perform the user interface 701 triggered tasks(corresponding to the query or queries input into the user interface701). Assuming that on average a query to the system should returnresults in 15 seconds, if the query does not return a result, 1 machineturns into 2 machines, if there still is no response these machinesincrease to 4 until an error such as no data found is returned.

Data store 601 can also be triggered by the data fusion module 501 whennew sources of data streams are ingested into the data store 601. Thealgorithm coordinator module 801 decides which algorithm will be used bymessaging the algorithm storage module 802. For example, when dynamiclocation data is ingested into the data fusion module 501, a row of dataincluding a unique identifier from 101-A, including latitude, longitude,and timestamp is detected, where latitude and longitude data are in twoseparate columns. The algorithm coordinator module 801 detects whetherthe latitude and longitude fall within the boundaries of any dynamic orstatic coordinates or groups of coordinates by communicating the row andintersecting it with the geometric shapes stored in the data store 601.If the latitude and longitude match any static or dynamic geometricshapes (or groups of shapes), static coordinates (or groups of staticcoordinates), then the algorithm coordinator module 801, searches whichalgorithm is required for the data fusion through a library ofalgorithms from the algorithm storage module 802. For example, when thelatitude and longitude fall near a point (proximate as predefined oruser-defined in relation to the point), then all profiles (i.e., Profile101-A-C, 102A-C, 103A-C, and so on) associated with a mobile device 201is enriched with that point as the algorithm coordinator module 801,recognizes that the latitude, longitude input will be matched with apoint and deploy an algorithm, such as but not limited to Ball Tree, KDTree, nearest neighbor, etc. to match them. Ball Tree will be used whencoordinates are on land, KD Tree will be used if the coordinates areabove ground. Ball Tree is mobile to ATM machine, while KD Tree isaircraft to mobile device (there is an altitude which makes thealgorithm have to search a 3^(rd) dimension). When profile 101-Aassociated with the mobile device 201 falls on a single coordinate orgroups of coordinates (such as a polygon), the algorithm coordinatormodule 801 deploys an algorithm such as point in polygon from thealgorithm storage module 802. When there is more than one polygonlayered hierarchically across the latitude and longitude input ofprofile 101-A associated with the mobile device 201, then all the namesattached to the polygons are attached to the unique identifier of 101-A,and placed into the datastore 601, and distributed across the generatedprofile twin module 502, through the data store replicator module 901.

If the data fusion module 501 has dynamic location data ingested throughthe cloud storage 401 from a source 102-A from the aircraft category202, then the same process, the unique identifier of the aircraft suchas its flight number or tail number, latitude, longitude and, in thiscase, timestamp, is matched with the unique identifier of the source101-A through the algorithm coordinator module 801, wherein apoint-to-point proximity algorithm is selected (from the algorithmstorage module 802) and deployed through the data fusion module 501 andingested into the data store 601 after both the identifiers are matched.In this manner, both unique identifiers of flight number 201-A andmobile device 101-A are fused together through latitude, longitude, andtimestamps. Preset rules such as landed aircraft 201-A and mobile devicelocation 101-A matches allow for increased precision for theidentification and enrichment of the mobile device 101-A with the flightnumber, airline, and tail number to infer the passenger and segment isunder a name that can be later queried (or tracked) by the userinterface 701. This matched or fused data is allocated under thegenerated profile twin module 502. If the historical passenger flightsand passenger transit networks across a physical location, such as anairport are to be viewed and queried through the user interface 701 thenboth the generated profile twin module 502 and generated location twinmodule 503 are accessed through the data store replicator module 901.

It is important to clarify that one of the important functions of thedata store replicator module 901 is to scale up the data stores in anefficient manner as well as the computational resources required toaccess the data. If the user interface 701 requires the correlation orstatistical analysis of ticket prices across the passenger transitnetworks which are generated through the fusion of 101-A and 201-A, thengenerated profile twin module 502, generated location twin module 503,and generated event twin module 504 are accessed through the data storereplicator module 901, as external event data (which may includelatitude or longitude or may not) are connectable through the flightnumber of the aircraft profile at 102-A. In a simulation of ticket pricevariations with mobile device 101-A sensitivity, to identify priceelasticities in demand or any other economic and financial insight, thealgorithm coordinator module 801 selects from a library of, but notlimited to, statistical learning, deep learning, machine learning,artificial life, cellular automata, genetic algorithm or evolutionaryalgorithm from the algorithm storage module 802, enriches and generatesthe output through the data fusion module 501, ingests it into thedatastore 601, and allows the output to be viewed, manipulated, adjustedthrough the user interface 701. Therefore, through the fusion of 101-Aand 201-A and the deployment of the algorithm storage module 802, theprice elasticities of demand of passenger audiences across airlines canbe simulated as (but not limited to) charts, dashboards, network graphs,maps metrics, real-time reports, historical reports, either in timelyschedules or alert based defined by the user interface's users acrossand through the user interface 701.

FIG. 5 illustrates an interaction diagram demonstrating how the userinterface 701 accesses the data transfer orchestrator 901 and the datastore 601 through the instruction builder 1001. JavaScript™ (JS) orReact JS libraries (or extensions) may be used to enable the front-endat the user interface 701 to manage queries sent to the data store 601,and to receive analysis, statistics, charts, and lists of uniqueidentifiers which are categorized and transferred to servers across theinternet either through APIs, SFTP addresses or object storage locationsthrough the data transfer orchestrator 901 which uploads the lists ofunique identifiers across different platforms such as DMPs, SFTPservers, object storage platforms externally located from the system1002-A and 1002-B. Data transfer orchestrator 901 orchestrates whetherthe query should return charts (for analysis) or lists of unique IDs.Charts are for insights, while unique IDs are advertising IDs that areuploaded onto social media and ad networks (most of them are DMPs, SFTPservers, AWS S3 storage buckets, etc., that match them withFacebook®/Instagram®/Twitter® profiles). External platform 1002-A maymatch the unique lists with the pool of unique lists located on theexternal platform to further enrich the data originating from the datastore 601. The instruction builder 1001 is a user interface widget thatenables SQL queries to be built, without raw SQL codes. The SQL querycan generate a list of unique IDs, or a time-series line chart (piechart, map, etc.). The report builder (instruction builder) widgetbuilds the SQL code in a no-code manner (this is a react js solution).The instruction builder widget displays SQL queries and their attributesas blocks, nodes, and connections (flows). These enable end-users tobuild complex SQL queries, without them having to know the SQL language.These are considered as front-end software/libraries/widgets. The datatransfer orchestrater, coordinates which external platform the list ofunique IDs generated will be sent to. It coordinates the delivery oflists of unique IDs, for example, the A list will be sent to, forexample, Facebook®, but the B list will be sent to, for example,Twitter®. The external platform 1002-B is a server, object storagelocation, NAS, etc. that may redistribute the unique lists ofidentifiers across networks or other addresses where a match is madethrough the unique identifiers if the unique identifier exists acrossthe external platform 1002-B may it be 201, 202, 203, 204 or 205. Theexternal platform 1002-B may be in connection with the initial externalplatform 1002-A either through a mutual node across a network, notlimited to but including ad networks, data management platforms such asOracle Bluekai, Salesforce Krux, or other data exchanges in the scenariowhere the unique identifier is not of the category 201.

FIG. 6 -A and FIG. 6 -B are flow diagrams for associating profiles withhierarchies of location, according to one embodiment of the presentinvention. A profile or a mobile device can belong to a country,district, city, neighborhood, or street, essentially multiple layers oflocation can be associated with a device or a profile, all together orindependently (ID, country or ID, country, district as a row). Forexample, Seattle belongs to the US, while Berlin to Germany. At step2001 the method includes generating the parent location of the profileby identifying the associated parent location across all parentlocations where the profile falls within. For example, if the mobiledevice is spotted in a country (US) and is spotted in another country(Bahamas), assuming country is a parent location, then the travel pathof the mobile device can be viewed across these two countries, or itstravel distribution can be viewed as charts on the user interface 701.

At step 2002 the method includes generating the child location of theprofile by identifying the associated child location across all childlocations under the hierarchy of the parent location where the profilefalls within. If the mobile device is spotted in a city (New York) andis spotted in another city (Florida) later on, then the statistics ofthe mobile device can include cities visited as New York and Florida (ona user interface or as an ID that has visited both these cities (laterto become a white-collar and summer vacationer)).

At step 2003 the method includes generating the grandchild location ofthe profile by identifying the associated grandchild location across allgrandchild locations under the hierarchy of the child locations wherethe profile falls within. If the mobile device is spotted in an airport,such as Dubai International Airport, and in another airport, IstanbulAirport (both of them have different parents e.g. different countries),then this ID can be displayed in a user interface where both DubaiInternational Airport and Istanbul Airport will be displayed, ortargeted as an ID such as a GCC traveler, Emirates© customer, airlinepassenger etc.

At step 2004 the method includes generating a profile or segment acrossthe parent locations, child locations and grandchild locations at thesame level of hierarchies, or across the hierarchies. At step 2005, themethod includes generating a profile or segment across time ranges byparent location, child location and grandchild location at the specifiedtime range or across time intervals. As noted here, the same profile isbuilt step-by-step, initially generating a country it belongs to, a cityit belongs to, a district/neighborhood, etc. it belongs to. At 2004,after all the locations are derived (and their country, city, district,etc. hierarchy) for the same profile, the travel journeys are derivedfor the profile by current location (ID, city, district, neighborhood)and by historical path (across hierarchies as the mobile device travelswithin countries, cities, neighborhoods, etc.).

At step 2006, the method includes building scores by selecting,creating, and generating features in a supervised or unsupervised mannerby retrieving the hierarchies of the locations, or combining all parent,child, and grandchild locations. For example, if the number of hospitalvisits in Ghana is much greater than the number of hospital visits inDubai, then Ghana receives a high-risk score for a pandemic outbreak.Building, scores, are done via the data fusion module 501 on FIG. 4 ,where the scores are ingested into the data store 601 on FIG. 4 for anyprofile 502, location 503 or event 504. This is managed through thealgorithm coordinator module at 801 on FIG. 4 , and the scoringalgorithm is selected from the algorithm storage module at 802.

At step 2007, the method includes enriching profiles, segments andhierarchies fusing the profiles and segments across other sources ofprofiles or their hierarchies through pre-defined or machine-definedrules. For example, Mobile Device profile 101-A is matched (data fusionmodule 501) with Aircraft profile 102-A to enrich the mobile deviceprofile as ‘Airline Passenger’, or define an Aircraft 102-A as a‘Passenger plane’ if all the profiles within an unnamed plane are‘Airline Passenger’s. If there is no plane signal present (ADS-B) butall the accumulated mobile devices at a specific location are ‘AirlinePassenger’s then, there must be an aircraft present 202 or an airportpresent 205 (static location data that may not exist), even if theaircraft has no name or signal (upwards in the hierarchy and pre-definedby a human, or algorithmically detected and machine-defined), pleaserefer to FIG. 1 for this. The profiles 101-A, 102-A, etc., aretransferred through the Internet 301, stored at cloud storage 401, andthen the data fusion module 501 handles step 2007. The handling parttakes place in FIG. 4 , where the algorithm coordinator module 801extracts the required algorithm from the algorithm storage module 802,either utilizing human input rules (pre-defined) or algorithmicallydetection (machine-defined).

At step 2008, the method includes generating profile lifecycles throughthe aggregation of profiles by parent, child and grandchild locationsvaried through time ranges and intervals. For example, mobile device101-A can be a car owner in January 2022, but not be a car owner inFebruary 2022. A mobile device 101-A can have its car ownership statuschange over the year and this can be viewed across a time frame (days,months, years). Mobile device consistently visits fuel stations in amonth and no longer visits them, even though mobility exists in itsmovement patterns (visits bus stations, airports, terminals etc., carrental stores). The data fusion module 501 at FIG. 2 analyzes mobiledevice 101-A profile trajectories across static location data 205 onFIG. 1 and creates a generated profile twin module 502, through theprofile lifecycle creator module twin module 502-A so that the mobiledevice's attributes are constantly updated and to be later ingested intothe mirrored universe module 501-A or displayed through the userinterface 701 with the correct input on the instruction builder 1001.

At step 2009, the method includes generating location lifecycles throughthe aggregation of locations by parent, child and grandchild locationsvaried through time ranges and intervals. For example, a static locationprofile such as a Walmart® store 205 (poi_name) categorized as staticlocation data 104 on FIG. 1 , saw a collapse in the number of visitorsduring the Covid-19 pandemic during lockdowns. The visitors wereWalmart® customers and workers. Before the lockdowns, the distributionof visitors where 95% customers and 5% workers, after the lockdownswhere products were only shipped through cargo, the distribution became0% customers and 100% workers. The number of visitors dropped from1K/day to 50/day. This represents the location lifecycle of the Walmart®store. The data fusion module 501 at FIG. 2 analyzes location data 205on FIG. 1 with the mobile devices 101-A, 101-B, and so on, and creates agenerated location twin module 503 through the location lifecyclecreator module 503-A, to be later ingested into the mirrored universemodule 501-A.

At step 2010, the method includes generating event lifecycles throughthe aggregation of events by parent, child and grandchild locationsvaried through time ranges and intervals. For example, event 105 fromthe dynamic location data 206 such as a Dua Lipa concert at the MadisonSquare Garden in New York on the day 1 Mar. 2022, 21:00 PM local timehad 90% US visitors and 10% non-US visitors, while the next concert inSeattle had 99% US visitors and 1% non-US visitors. Every event has itsown lifecycle and these distributions can be compared across days,months and years. Events take place at different locations and atdifferent times, but the event itself (Dua Lipa) concert remains static.The data fusion module 501 at FIG. 2 analyzes dynamic location data 206on FIG. 1 with the mobile devices 101-A, 101-B, and so on, creates agenerated event twin module 504 through the event lifecycle creatormodule 504-A, to be later ingested into the mirrored universe module501-A.

At step 2011, the method includes combining profile, location and eventlifecycles through hierarchies or across hierarchies of profiles assegments, locations and time. This is described in the description ofthe mirrored universe module 501-A. An earthquake takes place in Tokyoat 13 Mar. 2022, 22:00 PM local time, after 20 minutes, the number oftotal hospital visits skyrocket from 1000 visitors/day (90% patients to10% healthcare workers) to 10000 visitors per day (99% patients to 1%healthcare workers), after 3 weeks the total hospital visits in Japandecreases back to 100 visitors per day. Over time, the profiles havechanged, but were initially triggered by an unexpected event. This eventchanged the types of profiles visiting locations. The profile lifecyclecreator module 502-A at FIG. 2 , the location lifecycle creator module503-A at FIG. 2 and the event lifecycle creator module 504-A ingestslifecycles collected from the generated profile twin module 502,generated location twin module 503 and the generated event twin module504, ingests them right into the mirrored universe module 501-A, wherethis universe can be simulated and analyzed.

At step 2012, the method includes inferring profile lifecycle's reactionacross locations, locations lifecycle across events and event lifecyclesacross profiles. For example, in FIG. 7O and FIG. 7P, the effect ofevents (Sunday—weekends where all stores are closed in Germany), onvisitor counts to Do-It-Yourself stores can be seen with the number ofvisitors collapsing on the 7^(th) and the 13^(th) of February. Eventssuch as discount days, clearance sales, radio or geo-marketing campaignscan be associated with peaks. In FIG. 7L, the peaks and troughs ofvisitor counts are seen on specific days, implying events like roadconstructions, student exam days, etc., where these events can bedetected or viewed across the user interface 701 on FIG. 5 . The datastore 601 at FIG. 4 accesses the data store replicator module 901, whichaccesses the generated location twin module 503 and the generated eventtwin module 504 to display the outputs on the user interface 701 throughready rules designed by the instruction builder 1001 at FIG. 5 . Theoutputs are inferred at step 2012 by human perception and analysis or byalerts on the user interface 701 designed by the instruction builder.

At step 2013, the method includes generating profiles across uniqueidentifiers, groups of identifiers or segments associating mutuallocations, relationships, mutual events or locations. For example, amobile device 101-A consistently visits the same residential building,taking FIG. 7D as an example, then that residential building isidentified as the ID's homezone location, and its neighborhood to thecountry (all details belonging to the location). If a group of mobiledevices 101-A etc., visit the same residential building in FIG. 7D, thenthe group of devices share the same homezone location. If all the uniquemobile devices visit hospitals constantly, then FIG. 7G is filled withtheir visit counts. If they consistently visit hospitals, the group ofdevices are health workers.

FIGS. 7A through 7S depict various screenshots showing variousfunctional aspects of the present invention. FIG. 7A depicts how a rowof unique identifier information (maid or 101-A at FIG. 1 ) or profile,consisting of a minimum of latitude, longitude and timestamp columns canbe further enriched with a city column. FIG. 7B depicts how a row ofunique identifier information (maid or 101-A at FIG. 1 ) or profileconsisting of a minimum of latitude, longitude, timestamp and city, canfurther be enriched with district. FIG. 7C depicts how a row of uniqueidentifier information (maid or 101-A at FIG. 1 ) or profile consistingof a minimum of latitude, longitude, timestamp, city and district can befurther enriched with neighborhood. FIG. 7D depicts how a row of aunique profile information (maid) or profile consisting of a minimum oflatitude, longitude, timestamp, city, district, neighborhood and furtherbe enriched with the building type (referred as poi_fclass in oursystem, in this case residential). FIG. 7E shows how a row of uniqueprofile (maid or 101-A at FIG. 1 ) consisting of a minimum of latitude,longitude, timestamp, city, district and neighborhood can be furtherenriched with road/transportation (referred as lin_fclass in our system,in this case a service road) type. FIG. 7F shows how a row of a uniqueprofile information (maid or 101-A at FIG. 1 ) consisting of a minimumof latitude, longitude, timestamp, city, district, neighborhood andlin_fclass can further be enriched with road/name (referred to aslin_name in our system, in this case “Yeni Hal Caddesi”). FIG. 7G showsthe number of visits by building type of each profile, in aggregatewithin any timeframe (0 as no visits, 1 or more as the amounts ofvisits). FIG. 7H shows how data aggregated from FIG. 7G is used forcorrelations on car ownership (car_owner), etc for scoring purposes orstatistics. FIG. 7I shows a depiction of a user interface (dashboard),where city, district, neighborhood, month, day, hour or day of week canbe filtered by a form of instruction builder 1001 and data automaticallyis filtered across charts and maps (the example shows the motorwayjourneys of unique profiles). FIG. 7J shows a depiction of all profileswithin a specific city, district in a country and their coordinates tosee show the intensity of visits across a map. FIG. 7K shows a pivottable of aggregated on the user interface 701, of profiles where thecolumns are workzone city, district and the rows are homezoneneighborhoods, filtered from the filter box in FIG. 7J, which is a formof instruction builder 1001 at FIG. 5 , essentially displaying home towork movements by location on the user interface 701. FIG. 7L comparestwo roads and their visit counts across a range of dates, filtered bythe same filter box on FIG. 7J, which is a form of instruction builder1001 at FIG. 5 , by city and district (detect traffic jam times, etc. byroad name) on the user interface 701. FIG. 7M shows a depiction ofconnections of aggregated unique profiles across various locations(lin_name in this case and poi_name) while displaying them as a networkgraph, filtered by a filter box on FIG. 7J which is a form ofinstruction builder 1001 at FIG. 5 on the user interface 701. FIG. 7Nshows a depiction of all profiles split by their location visitsenabling the user to see the visitor share across locations (poi_name inthis case) and can be viewed as a market share pie chart. FIG. 7O showsa depiction of profile visits to locations across a specific country andspecific locations (poi_name) across days of a month. FIG. 7P shows adepiction of total profile visits to a specific building type(poi_fclass) broken down by cities/federal states (for example the mostprofile visits to DIY stores were at North-Rhine-Westphalia in Germanyon the 6^(th) day). FIG. 7Q shows the distribution of each profiletagged by location and other locations they visit, essentially showingthe breakdown of affinities of a type of profile (where else does thisprofile visit?). FIG. 7R shows a depiction of a querybuilder/instruction builder (701, 1001), where all the generatedprofiles can be selected and generated without using an SQL code, andallows the user to retrieve these profiles as a list of IDs through theBuild Audience (green box) button. FIG. 7S shows a depiction of howthese unique IDs can be sent across to social media channels or to otherservers, on the user interface 701, through the internet (for targetedadvertising and profile matching on Facebook®/Twitter® (1002-A), SFTPserver (1002-B), etc.)

The above-described features and applications can be implemented assoftware processes that are specified as a set of instructions recordedon a computer-readable storage medium (also referred to ascomputer-readable medium). When these instructions are executed by oneor more processing unit(s) (e.g., one or more processors, cores ofprocessors, or other processing units), they cause the processingunit(s) to perform the actions indicated in the instructions.Embodiments within the scope of the present disclosure may also includetangible and/or non-transitory computer-readable storage media forcarrying or having computer-executable instructions or data structuresstored thereon. Such non-transitory computer-readable storage media canbe any available media that can be accessed by a general purpose orspecial purpose computer, including the functional design of any specialpurpose processor. By way of example, and not limitation, suchnon-transitory computer-readable media can include flash memory, RAM,ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storageor other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be usedto carry or store desired program code means in the form ofcomputer-executable instructions, data structures, or processor chipdesign. The computer-readable media does not include carrier waves andelectronic signals passing wirelessly or over wired connections.

Computer-executable instructions include, for example, instructions anddata which cause a general purpose computer, special purpose computer,or special purpose processing device to perform a certain function orgroup of functions. Computer-executable instructions also includeprogram modules that are executed by computers in stand-alone or networkenvironments. Generally, program modules include routines, programs,components, data structures, objects, and the functions inherent in thedesign of special-purpose processors, etc. that perform particular tasksor implement particular abstract data types. Computer-executableinstructions, associated data structures, and program modules representexamples of the program code means for executing steps of the methodsdisclosed herein. The particular sequence of such executableinstructions or associated data structures represents examples ofcorresponding acts for implementing the functions described in suchsteps.

Processors suitable for the execution of a computer program include, byway of example, both general and special purpose microprocessors, andany one or more processors of any kind of digital computer. Generally, aprocessor will receive instructions and data from a read-only memory ora random access memory or both. The essential elements of a computer area processor for performing or executing instructions and one or morememory devices for storing instructions and data. Generally, a computerwill also include, or be operatively coupled to receive data from ortransfer data to, or both, one or more mass storage devices for storingdata, e.g., magnetic, magneto-optical disks, or optical disks. However,a computer need not have such devices. Moreover, a computer can beembedded in another device, e.g., a mobile telephone, a personal digitalassistant (PDA), a mobile audio or video player, a game console, aGlobal Positioning System (GPS) receiver, or a portable storage device(e.g., a universal serial bus (USB) flash drive), to name just a few.

In this specification, the term “software” is meant to include firmwareresiding in read-only memory or applications stored in magnetic storageor flash storage, for example, a solid-state drive, which can be readinto memory for processing by a processor. Also, in someimplementations, multiple software technologies can be implemented assub-parts of a larger program while remaining distinct softwaretechnologies. In some implementations, multiple software technologiescan also be implemented as separate programs. Finally, any combinationof separate programs that together implement a software technologydescribed here is within the scope of the subject technology. In someimplementations, the software programs, when installed to operate on oneor more electronic systems, define one or more specific machineimplementations that execute and perform the operations of the softwareprograms.

A computer program (also known as a program, software, softwareapplication, script, or code) can be written in any form of programminglanguage, including compiled or interpreted languages, declarative orprocedural languages, and it can be deployed in any form, including as astand-alone program or as a module, component, subroutine, object, orother unit suitable for use in a computing environment. A computerprogram may, but need not, correspond to a file in a file system. Aprogram can be stored in a portion of a file that holds other programsor data (e.g., one or more scripts stored in a markup languagedocument), in a single file dedicated to the program in question, or inmultiple coordinated files (e.g., files that store one or more modules,sub programs, or portions of code). A computer program can be deployedto be executed on one computer or on multiple computers that are locatedat one site or distributed across multiple sites and interconnected by acommunication network.

These functions described above can be implemented in digital electroniccircuitry, in computer software, firmware, or hardware. The techniquescan be implemented using one or more computer program products.Programmable processors and computers can be included in or packaged asmobile devices. The processes and logic flows can be performed by one ormore programmable processors and by one or more programmable logiccircuitry. General and special purpose computing devices and storagedevices can be interconnected through communication networks.

Some implementations include electronic components, for example,microprocessors, storage, and memory that store computer programinstructions in a machine-readable or computer-readable medium(alternatively referred to as computer-readable storage media,machine-readable media, or machine-readable storage media). Someexamples of such computer-readable media include RAM, ROM, read-onlycompact discs (CD-ROM), recordable compact discs (CD-R), rewritablecompact discs (CD-RW), read-only digital versatile discs (e.g., DVD-ROM,dual-layer DVD-ROM), a variety of recordable/rewritable DVDs (e.g.,DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, etc.), flash memory (e.g., SD cards, mini-SDcards, micro-SD cards, etc.), magnetic or solid-state hard drives,read-only and recordable BluRay® discs, ultra density optical discs, anyother optical or magnetic media, and floppy disks. The computer-readablemedia can store a computer program that is executable by at least oneprocessing unit and includes sets of instructions for performing variousoperations. Examples of computer programs or computer code includemachine code, for example, is produced by a compiler, and filesincluding higher-level code that are executed by a computer, anelectronic component, or a microprocessor using an interpreter.

While the above discussion primarily refers to microprocessor ormulti-core processors that execute software, some implementations areperformed by one or more integrated circuits, for example,application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) or field programmablegate arrays (FPGAs). In some implementations, such integrated circuitsexecute instructions that are stored on the circuit itself.

As used in this specification and any claims of this application, theterms “computer”, “server”, “processor”, and “memory” all refer toelectronic or other technological devices. These terms exclude people orgroups of people. For the purposes of the specification, the termsdisplay or displaying means displaying on an electronic device. As usedin this specification and any claims of this application, the terms“computer-readable medium” and “computer-readable media” are entirelyrestricted to tangible, physical objects that store information in aform that is readable by a computer. These terms exclude any wirelesssignals, wired download signals, and any other ephemeral signals.

To provide for interaction with a user, implementations of the subjectmatter described in this specification can be implemented on a computerhaving a display device, e.g., a CRT (cathode ray tube) or LCD (liquidcrystal display) monitor, for displaying information to the user and akeyboard and a pointing device, e.g., a mouse or a trackball, by whichthe user can provide input to the computer. Other kinds of devices canbe used to provide for interaction with a user as well; for example,feedback provided to the user can be any form of sensory feedback, e.g.,visual feedback, auditory feedback, or tactile feedback; and input fromthe user can be received in any form, including acoustic, speech, ortactile input. In addition, a computer can interact with a user bysending documents to and receiving documents from a device that is usedby the user; for example, by sending web pages to a web browser on auser's client device in response to requests received from the webbrowser.

The subject matter described in this specification can be implemented ina computing system that includes a back end component, e.g., as a dataserver, or that includes a middleware component, e.g., an applicationserver, or that includes a front end component, e.g., a client computerhaving a graphical user interface or a Web browser through which a usercan interact with an implementation of the subject matter described inthis specification, or any combination of one or more such back end,middleware, or front end components. The components of the system can beinterconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication,e.g., a communication network. Examples of communication networksinclude a local area network (“LAN”) and a wide area network (“WAN”), aninter-network (e.g., the Internet), and peer-to-peer networks (e.g., adhoc peer-to-peer networks).

Those of skill in the art will appreciate that other embodiments of thedisclosure may be practiced in network computing environments with manytypes of computer system configurations, including personal computers,hand-held devices, multi-processor systems, microprocessor-based orprogrammable consumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframecomputers, and the like. Embodiments may also be practiced indistributed computing environments where tasks are performed by localand remote processing devices that are linked (either by hardwiredlinks, wireless links or by a combination thereof) through acommunications network. In a distributed computing environment, programmodules may be located in both local and remote memory storage devices.

The computing system can include clients and servers. A client andserver are generally remote from each other and typically interactthrough a communication network. The relationship of client and serverarises by virtue of computer programs running on the respectivecomputers and having a client-server relationship to each other. In someaspects of the disclosed subject matter, a server transmits data (e.g.,an HTML page) to a client device (e.g., for purposes of displaying datato and receiving user input from a user interacting with the clientdevice). Data generated at the client device (e.g., a result of the userinteraction) can be received from the client device at the server.

It is understood that any specific order or hierarchy of steps in theprocesses disclosed is an illustration of example approaches. Based ondesign preferences, it is understood that the specific order orhierarchy of steps in the processes may be rearranged, or that allillustrated steps be performed. Some of the steps may be performedsimultaneously. For example, in certain circumstances, multitasking andparallel processing may be advantageous. Moreover, the separation ofvarious system components illustrated above should not be understood asrequiring such separation, and it should be understood that thedescribed program components and systems can generally be integratedtogether in a single software product or packaged into multiple softwareproducts.

Various modifications to these aspects will be readily apparent, and thegeneric principles defined herein may be applied to other aspects. Thus,the claims are not intended to be limited to the aspects shown herein,but are to be accorded the full scope consistent with the languageclaims, where reference to an element in the singular is not intended tomean “one and only one” unless specifically so stated, but rather “oneor more.” Unless specifically stated otherwise, the term “some” refersto one or more. Pronouns in the masculine (e.g., his) include thefeminine and neuter gender (e.g., her and its) and vice versa. Headingsand subheadings, if any, are used for convenience only and do not limitthe subject technology.

A phrase, for example, an “aspect” does not imply that the aspect isessential to the subject technology or that the aspect applies to allconfigurations of the subject technology. A disclosure relating to anaspect may apply to all configurations or one or more configurations. Aphrase, for example, an aspect may refer to one or more aspects and viceversa. A phrase, for example, a “configuration” does not imply that suchconfiguration is essential to the subject technology or that suchconfiguration applies to all configurations of the subject technology. Adisclosure relating to a configuration may apply to all configurationsor one or more configurations. A phrase, for example, a configurationmay refer to one or more configurations and vice versa.

The various embodiments described above are provided by way ofillustration only and should not be construed to limit the scope of thedisclosure. Those skilled in the art will readily recognize variousmodifications and changes that may be made to the principles describedherein without following the example embodiments and applicationsillustrated and described herein, and without departing from the spiritand scope of the disclosure.

While this specification contains many specific implementation details,these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of anyinvention or of what may be claimed, but rather as descriptions offeatures that may be specific to particular embodiments of particularinventions. Certain features that are described in this specification inthe context of separate embodiments can also be implemented incombination in a single embodiment. Conversely, various features thatare described in the context of a single embodiment can also beimplemented in multiple embodiments separately or in any suitablesubcombination. Moreover, although features may be described above asacting in certain combinations and even initially claimed as such, oneor more features from a claimed combination can in some cases be excisedfrom the combination, and the claimed combination may be directed to asubcombination or variation of a sub combination.

Similarly, while operations are depicted in the drawings in a particularorder, this should not be understood as requiring that such operationsbe performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, orthat all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirableresults. In certain circumstances, multitasking and parallel processingmay be advantageous. Moreover, the separation of various systemcomponents in the embodiments described above should not be understoodas requiring such separation in all embodiments, and it should beunderstood that the described program components and systems cangenerally be integrated together in a single software product orpackaged into multiple software products.

As noted above, particular embodiments of the subject matter have beendescribed, but other embodiments are within the scope of the followingclaims. For example, the actions recited in the claims can be performedin a different order and still achieve desirable results. As oneexample, the processes depicted in the accompanying figures do notnecessarily require the particular order shown, or sequential order, toachieve desirable results. In certain implementations, multitasking andparallel processing may be advantageous.

CONCLUSION

A system and method have been shown in the above embodiments for theeffective implementation of a system and method for mirroring a digitaltwin universe through data fusion of static and dynamic location, time,and event data. While various preferred embodiments have been shown anddescribed, it will be understood that there is no intent to limit theinvention by such disclosure, but rather, it is intended to cover allmodifications falling within the spirit and scope of the invention, asdefined in the appended claims. For example, the present inventionshould not be limited by software/program, computing environment, orspecific computing hardware.

The invention claimed is:
 1. An article of manufacture having a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable program code executable by a processor to implement a method, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, over a network, from a first data source associated with either a static object or a static location at least the following: a first identifier, a first latitude-longitude pair, and a first timestamp; (b) generating a first geometric shape comprising at least the first latitude-longitude pair and the first timestamp; (c) storing the first geometric shape in a first datastore associated with either the static object or the static location; (d) receiving, over the network, from a second data source associated with either a dynamic object or a dynamic location at least the following: a second identifier, a second latitude-longitude pair, and a second timestamp, the first latitude-longitude pair and the second latitude-longitude pair having a similar value; (e) generating a second geometric shape comprising at least the second latitude-longitude pair and the second timestamp; (f) storing the second geometric shape in a second datastore associated with either the dynamic object or the dynamic location; (g) using a spatial algorithm and determining a match between the first latitude-longitude pair associated with the first geometric shape and the second latitude-longitude pair associated with the second geometric shape; (h) storing the first geometric shape and second geometric shape in a data fusion module; (i) receiving, over a network, from a third data source associated with another dynamic object or dynamic location at least a third identifier, a third latitude-longitude pair, and a third timestamp data, the first latitude-longitude pair, the second latitude-longitude pair, and the third latitude-longitude pair having the similar value; (j) generating a third geometric shape comprising at least the third latitude-longitude pair and the third timestamp; (k) storing the third geometric shape in the data fusion module; (l) using the spatial algorithm and determining another match between the third latitude-longitude pair associated with the third geometric shape and the first and second geometric shapes; (m) generating a profile for the first, second, and third latitude-longitude pairs having similar values, the profile associated with any of the following: the static location, the static object, the dynamic location, or the dynamic object; (n) receiving by the data fusion module, over the network, a query input via an interface; and (o) transmitting, in response to the query, an output from the data fusion module to the interface over the network, wherein the interface displays the output comprising any of, or a combination of, the first geometric shape, second geometric shape, or third geometric shape.
 2. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the generated profile is sent over a network to one or more of the following external platforms: a social media platform, an advertising platform, a data management platform, or an object storage platform.
 3. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of using one or more pre-defined rules or one or more machine-defined rules to control the output displayed at the interface.
 4. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the output comprises any of, or a combination of, the following: the first identifier, second identifier, third identifier, the first latitude-longitude pair, second latitude-longitude pair, third latitude-longitude pair, the first timestamp, second timestamp, or third timestamp, a graphical representation of the first geometric shape, a graphical representation of the second geometric shape, or a graphical representation of the third geometric shape.
 5. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the interface is used to retrieve any of the following information: a historical or real-time record associated with at least one given identifier, a historical or real-time record associated with at least one given latitude-longitude pair, or a historical or real-time record associated with at least one profile.
 6. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of applying at least one time filter to historical or real-time records displayed via the interface.
 7. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of applying at least one latitude-longitude filter to historical or real-time records displayed via the interface.
 8. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of applying at least one profile filter to historical or real-time records displayed via the interface. 